How and when do you celebrate Easter?

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As a child, I was given a chocolate egg from each set of grandparents and my parents and we ate hot cross buns and toasted teacakes at some point but I don't remember anything more specific and also I don't know if this is supposed to take place on Easter Friday, Sunday or Monday.

Have a baby daughter who has received a few Easter gifts - a cuddly lamb, a new outfit and some books, and I don't know a) whether to wrap them b) when to give her them and c) how to celebrate in general! Doesn't matter this year as she won't know what's going on, but was wondering what other people do for the years to come!

TIA!

That's very interesting sequin I didn't know that about the tomb/eggs. I must tell that to our dc in the morning.

There is some debate about the eggs, but that would be interesting for children to learn, depending on their age.

OP

For old fashioned Christians, which means RC before the reformation you would have spent lent abstaining from meat and not eating things like cake.

In my parents day you could not have flowers in church if you married in Lent.

Modern day Christians mostly 'give up' something for Lent, it should be something they enjoy, you can't give up spinach if you never have it.

The main 'celebration' is on the Sunday, without Easter Sunday there would be no Christianity.

I'm a lapsed Christian, don't believe it really, but I want to give my kids the opportunity to believe. I read them the Easter story from a children's Bible. They love it, and I keep them being told my father isn't really dead, because he went to heaven like Jesus. Sort of nice.

I forgot to mention that we drive to a spot with a big hill to roll our eggs on Easter Sunday after Mass. Does anyone else still do this?

What do you want to do?

We are not Christian. DD did an Easter egg trail at NT place yesterday and we are doing Easter Egg hunt on Saturday as we are at another NT place on Sunday. This year my oldest is 4 so our places are a bit more set in stone and they are getting more as I have lockdown guilt. Easter egg hunt in the garden and then a word based Easter egg hunt in the house with our gifts in a gift bag at the end. I just need to write some clues that can read first.

puppymonkey your post made me lol 🤣🤣🤣

We are having fish on good Friday, hot cross buns when we want and we are making an Easter tree with twigs and homemade decorations.

Today we’re having fish for tea but it wasn’t particularly planned, just happened to have some in the freezer. I’m working tomorrow. We do our Easter stuff on Sunday but it will be pretty low key this year. DD12 doesn’t want an egg hunt. She doesn’t even want an egg & has pick ‘n’ mix instead. DH has fruit ‘n’ nut chocolate & I have a big pack of mini eggs. We all have creme eggs. Got lamb steaks rubbed with garlic & rosemary, new potatoes & green beans for Sunday tea. DD will have something else. We probably won’t go anywhere as DD spends a lot of time in her room. Depending on the weather, we might have our first BBQ of the year on Monday.

Oh yes & DH has made hot cross buns

We have our twiggy Easter tree up (for the first time) and tulips/daffodils around the house.

I have a couple of Easter crafts planned with my DS. Easter Sunday will be chocolate eggs, pancakes for breakfast and an egg hunt at my ILs. Monday we're having a roast dinner and will play some board games later on.

Chocolate eggs on Sunday.

Won’t go near a church - nothing more boring. That’s it, really.

As a kid we used to go to church Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

There was an 'all churches together' walk from church to church through the town following the crucifix.

Foot washing was involved. 🤮

Now we would in normal times go to mass on Sunday, kids join the egg hunt then big family lunch with egg rolling and eating lots of chocolate.

In Preston we normally go egg rolling on Avenham hill but it's banned on Monday. Food with family at some point. Spend around a fortnight eating hot cross buns and chocolate. Like Christmas but without all the pressure

Not religious but for us it's marks the start of the spring/summer seasons. Do appreciate the long weekend off work. Kids get an egg and gift so they don't feel left out. That's it for us.

I've let DC start the chocolate as MIL sent a ridiculous amount.

I'll do a little egg hunt on Sunday. That's about it for our plans.

(Not religious)